Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2008-0216

The ptsname function in FreeBSD 6.0 through 7.0-PRERELEASE does not properly verify that a certain portion of a device name is associated with a pty of a user who is calling the pt_chown function, which might allow local users to read data from the pty from another user.

EPSS: 0.003 (23.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 6.0, 6.1, 6.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

secteam@freebsd.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
secteam@freebsd.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
secteam@freebsd.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
secteam@freebsd.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secteam@freebsd.org (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory, Patch)